A giant sea snake was discovered in 2015 in Walhalla, North Dakota. At that time, the almost complete skull, jaws, cervical spine and several mosasaurus vertebrae Length 24 meters (7 feet).
“If you attached fins to a Komodo dragon and made it really big, it would look like this,” the lead author said in a statement. Amelia Zietlowgraduate student in comparative biology in the Richard Gilder Graduate School of the American Museum of Natural History.
The team described sea monster in an article published Monday (October 30) in the magazine Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.
And the colloquial name that was given to this sea monster, which lived 80 million years ago during the Cretaceous period, came from Scandinavian mythology: Jurmungand valhallansis.
Jörmungandr is a sea serpent from Norse mythology.
“As these animals evolved into giant sea monsters, they were constantly changing,” Zietlow said. “This work brings us one step closer to understanding how all these different forms relate to each other.”
Source: Digital Trends
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